@inproceedings{tekiroglu-etal-2019-fastdial,
    title = "{FASTD}ial: Abstracting Dialogue Policies for Fast Development of Task Oriented Agents",
    author = "Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem  and
      Magnini, Bernardo  and
      Guerini, Marco",
    editor = "Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta R.  and
      Alfonseca, Enrique",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
    month = jul,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/P19-3013/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-3013",
    pages = "75--80",
    abstract = "We present a novel abstraction framework called FASTDial for designing task oriented dialogue agents, built on top of the OpenDial toolkit. This framework is meant to facilitate prototyping and development of dialogue systems from scratch also by non tech savvy especially when limited training data is available. To this end, we use a generic and simple frame-slots data-structure with pre-defined dialogue policies that allows for fast design and implementation at the price of some flexibility reduction. Moreover, it allows for minimizing programming effort and domain expert training time, by hiding away many implementation details. We provide a system demonstration screencast video in the following link: \url{https://vimeo.com/329840716}"
}